Anonymous wrote:How many of those on here that are against this move will be at the hearing on the 22nd when this will be voted on? Raise your hands please..

Anonymous wrote:It is the responsibility of the School Board and FCPS Staff to do the right thing. It's not consistent with the One Fairfax resolution to always put the burden on the people who are getting the short end of the stick to complain, especially when FCPS did not reach out to them previously.

Anonymous wrote:Those ESs are "the LJ community" ( at least part of the lj community)...the part that would be most affected by the rezoning....you know...the kids who would actually be changing schools. The admin/planning dept is looking at this in a race neutral way. I understand that there could be secondary effects of this rezoning and good people can debate whether and how those secondary effects should be considered. But, the primary effect in any rezoning proposal is that some kids/families are moved out of the school they have always expected to attend.

Fcps does not have an obligation to maintain property values. They believe that they can continue providing the same education that they have always provided. The student population may be a bit different, but their side of the education equation will remain the same. Your children will still have access to the same teachers and courses they always have had.

Anonymous wrote:Did anyone else notice the following:

"Three community boundary scoping meetings were held in June 2017 at Marshall Road, Mosby Woods, and Oakton Elementary schools. These meetings presented the purpose of the study as follows: “The purpose of the boundary adjustment is provide capacity relief to Jackson MS by using available capacity at the newly renovated Thoreau MS.” The meetings utilized participant-facilitated break out groups in order to collect feedback for consideration by Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS).

As a result of the three community boundary scoping meetings and online feedback, FCPS received comments which were compiled and posted on the FCPS website. Three schools were identified by the community to be considered as part of the boundary study: Marshall Road, Mosby Woods, and Oakton Elementary schools."

That is from Attachment A for the upcoming School Board meeting (link below) where they will approve the change:

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Does it seem odd to anyone else that they had meetings at three elementary schools regarding the relief of overcrowding at Jackson and those three schools are the schools being moved? Did the residents really get to decide that their own schools should be moved rather than others? If they had meetings at other elementary schools, could they have also chosen to move themselves to the wealthier and newly refurbished school? What am I missing about this process?

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Anonymous wrote:This topic is not AAP related. Why is it here?

Um, Jackson is overcrowded because of the size of its AAP program, just like several other AAP centers.

Are the AAP parents really so self-centered that they have no idea how many decisions are made with a view towards preserving the options that AAP students, but not other kids, have to choose between schools? This is a classic example of a boundary study being undertaken with the least consideration given to the GenEd environment at the school that will be affected the most.

Anonymous wrote:This topic is not AAP related. Why is it here?

Anonymous wrote:Note. There has been zero analysis on the number of AAP students that likely would stay at LJ or the resulting FARMS percentage that will be left at LJ.

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Anonymous wrote:When is the vote on this?

It was presented as new business, but no follow-up work session or vote has yet been scheduled. Time will tell what to make of the failure to act promptly on the staff recommendation.